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Listen: The World ProgramAgrarian theorist Ralph Borsodi standing with Elizabeth Nutting next to a sign advertising the future site for the University of Melbourne.
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The land and buildings of the University of Melbourne would be later sold to Brevard Engineering College (which later became Florida Institute of Technology).
Nutting, Virginia Wood, and Margaret Hutchison were the founders of the American Homesteading Foundation and the town of Melbourne Village.
Biographical Note
Ralph Borsodi was born in 1888. He helped to found the School for Living in Suffern, New York in order to investigate and promulgate homesteading. Later he lived in Melbourne Village from 1950-60 and started the University of Melbourne, serving as chancellor of the school until 1957. His books were influential in the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s. Borsodi died in Exeter, New Hampshire on October 26, 1977.
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